Spoiler Alert: A la carte TV is something to dig into

4:20 PM,
Nov. 1, 2013

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Written by

Todd Hill
Media Network of Central Ohio

When you go to a restaurant and order Swedish meatballs, you pay for Swedish meatballs. The lemon-pepper fettuccine isn't on your check because you didn't have the lemon-pepper fettuccine.

Your monthly cable or satellite television bill, however, includes fees for hundreds of channels you rarely watch, if ever. What's more, you're billed the same amount even if you don't watch any TV that month at all. And as you may have noticed, the bill's a lot more expensive than a check for Swedish meatballs.

This is going to change. In fact, it already is changing. It has to. ...